Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880
Edition: First Free Press Edition 1998
Publisher: The Free Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York, New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 762
ISBN-13: 9780684856575
Copyright date: 1935, 1962, 1992
First sentence: Easily the most dramatic episode in American history was the sudden move to free four million black slaves in an effort to stop a great civil war, and to end forty years of bitter controversy, and to appease the moral sense of civilization.